[CentOS] Backup options.

Barry Brimer barry.brimer at bigfoot.com
Tue Apr 4 14:55:39 UTC 2006


Quoting Erin Fortenberry <Erin at Fortenberry.net>:

> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many
> years for disk to disk backups.
>
> Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only
> using tar/star for backups?
>
> Tar in its various forms are fine for some items, like home directories, but
> dump and restore in FreeBSD also gave me the possibility of easily doing a
> bare metal restore.
>
> What are my options for command line only backups? What is everyone else
> using?
>
> I do know about Bacula and Amanda... I don't know, maybe I have been using
> FreeBSD for too long.


Have you considered Arkeia? <http://www.arkeia.com> They offer Arkeia Light -
which is free for very small installations.

Barry



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